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Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American

Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations Hardcover - 2020

by Tateishi, John

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Berkeley: Heyday, 2020. Hardcover. xiii, 383p., very good condition in like dust jacket.
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  • Title Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations
  • Author Tateishi, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Heyday, Berkeley
  • Date 2020
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 303951
  • ISBN 9781597144988 / 1597144983
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.06 x 1.26 in (23.01 x 15.39 x 3.20 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Japanese Americans - Evacuation and, Japanese Americans - Civil rights
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2019045837
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.531

From the publisher

The unlikely but true story of the Japanese American Citizens League's fight for an official government apology and compensation for the imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Author John Tateishi, himself the leader of the JACL Redress Committee for many years, is first to admit that the task was herculean in scale. The campaign was seeking an unprecedented admission of wrongdoing from Congress. It depended on a unified effort but began with an acutely divided community: for many, the shame of "camp" was so deep that they could not even speak of it; money was a taboo subject; the question of the value of liberty was insulting. Besides internal discord, the American public was largely unaware that there had been concentration camps on US soil, and Tateishi knew that concessions from Congress would come only with mass education about the government's civil rights violations.

Beyond the backroom politicking and verbal fisticuffs that make this book a swashbuckling read, Redress is the story of a community reckoning with what it means to be both culturally Japanese and American citizens; how to restore honor; and what duty it has to protect such harms from happening again. This book has powerful implications as the idea of reparations shapes our national conversation.

About the author

John Tateishi, born in Los Angeles in 1939, was incarcerated from ages three to six at Manzanar, one of America's ten World War II concentration camps. He studied English Literature at UC Berkeley and attended UC Davis for graduate studies. He played important roles in leading the campaign for Japanese American redress, and as the director of the Japanese American Citizens League, he used the lessons of the campaign to ensure that the rights of this nation's Arab and Muslim communities were protected after 9/11.

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